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3.3 Monitoring, inspection and auditing

Before moving on to discuss technology evaluation and assessment specifically, I want to conclude this section by briefly discussing three activities that are sometimes erroneously considered as evaluation, but are not. Depending on the purpose and design of an evaluation, these are methods that can be used for collecting data. Frequently they are also free-standing activities in their own right.

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